The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Stranger shoots at hunter

An Appling man told authorities that someone shot at him multiple times while he was out hunting on New Year’s Eve.

The 38-year-old man said he was hunting on Corps of Engineers property, the Below Dam Quail Demonstration Area, about 2:30 p.m., when someone fired several rifle rounds toward him, hitting 20 to 40 feet ahead of him.

Columbia County officials are still waiting for Gov. Nathan Deal’s office to acknowledge their letter sent last week, reporting “possible malfeasance” on the part of Tax Commissioner Kay Allen.

Commssion Chairman Ron Cross said Monday he had not heard from the governor’s office about the letter, which commissioners approved on Dec. 23. The letter cites possible malfeasance in connection to fees that Allen was paid by Grovetown and Harlem to collect city taxes taxes. The letter says the fees were “retained as personal compensation that should have been remitted to the county.”